Patrimonio Cultural Viviente de la República Dominicana (1995)[5] Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of Duarte, Sánchez and Mella (2002)[1] María de la Purificación Ugarte España[7] (22 February 1914, Segovia, Spain – 4 March 2011, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic) was a Spanish-Dominican journalist, writer, academician, historian and palaeographer.

Jerónimo de Ugarte Roure, a Basque soldier who became civil governor of Zamora in the second Republican biennium.

[13] The political situation in the country with the outbreak of the civil war and the rise of Franco, forced them to fled into exile in the Dominican Republic,[6][10] where they arrived on early February 1940.

[9] At first, Ugarte worked at the State Secretariat for Foreign Affairs;[8] she also went on to teach the Spanish language to Jewish refugees of the World War II in Sosúa, in northern Dominican Republic.

[14][15] Between June and November 1943 she taught at the University of Santo Domingo the first course of Archival Science that was ever held at the Dominican Republic.